Deformation Quantization of Schutz Quantum Cosmology: Relational Time, Constraints, and Physical States

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A controlled correspondence is established between reduced relational dynamics and extended constrained quantization in an FLRW cosmology coupled to a Schutz perfect fluid. A canonical transformation in the matter sector yields a deparametrized constraint of the form 𝒞=p_T+H, with T serving as an internal time. In the extended Weyl--Wigner formulation, the quantum constraint is imposed bilaterally. Its antisymmetric part gives the exact Moyal evolution generated by the reduced Hamiltonian, while its symmetric part imposes an independent quantum shell condition. For a fixed self-adjoint realization of Ĥ, every reduced density operator supported on its negative spectral subspace admits an explicit distributional extension. A spectral dyad with energies E and E' is mapped to a clock Wigner distribution supported at p_T=−(E+E')/2, with relational phase determined by E−E'. The map preserves off-diagonal coherences, satisfies both star constraints, and has the reduced Wigner state as its p_T marginal; it is therefore injective on the admissible positive-density sector. A flat dust model with q=1/2 and Dirichlet data provides an explicit example: its reduced spectrum is (−∞,0], so the admissible sector contains all normalizable reduced states. The correspondence applies to a fixed constraint representative and quantum realization.

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@misc{fracalossi2026deformation,
  title = {{Deformation Quantization of Schutz Quantum Cosmology: Relational Time, Constraints, and Physical States}},
  author = {Raphael Fracalossi},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.37585},
  eprint = {2609.37585},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37585},
}

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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Deformation Quantization of Schutz Quantum Cosmology: Relational Time, Constraints, and Physical States
AU  - Raphael Fracalossi
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/29
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.37585
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37585
AB  - A controlled correspondence is established between reduced relational dynamics and extended constrained quantization in an FLRW cosmology coupled to a Schutz perfect fluid. A canonical transformation in the matter sector yields a deparametrized constraint of the form 𝒞=p_T+H, with T serving as an internal time. In the extended Weyl--Wigner formulation, the quantum constraint is imposed bilaterally. Its antisymmetric part gives the exact Moyal evolution generated by the reduced Hamiltonian, while its symmetric part imposes an independent quantum shell condition. For a fixed self-adjoint realization of Ĥ, every reduced density operator supported on its negative spectral subspace admits an explicit distributional extension. A spectral dyad with energies E and E' is mapped to a clock Wigner distribution supported at p_T=−(E+E')/2, with relational phase determined by E−E'. The map preserves off-diagonal coherences, satisfies both star constraints, and has the reduced Wigner state as its p_T marginal; it is therefore injective on the admissible positive-density sector. A flat dust model with q=1/2 and Dirichlet data provides an explicit example: its reduced spectrum is (−∞,0], so the admissible sector contains all normalizable reduced states. The correspondence applies to a fixed constraint representative and quantum realization.
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